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The sound of firecrackers sounded in the Suzhou Guild Hall. This spring exam, they won a great victory. Not only did they pass the exam, but they also included the top two! Only one mansion can achieve this level, and it is definitely the top three in the history of the Ming Dynasty's imperial examinations. The top two are Shaoxing in Xijiang and Ji'an in Jiangxi.
In any case, this is a great honor for Suzhou people. I believe that when the good news arrives in Suzhou, the whole city will celebrate. Of course, Suzhou people in the capital can enjoy this pride first. Chai Shouli, the president of the Suzhou Chamber of Commerce and the boss of Beijing Huilianhao, donated generously, inviting the most popular Kunqu opera team to find the best restaurant, sing operas in the Suzhou Guild Hall, and sing a large seat. For a moment, the guild hall was crowded with people. The joy was filled with "congratulations" and people mistakenly thought that Suzhou Prefecture was celebrated at the end of February.
In the second-floor teahouse opposite the guild hall, the guests could no longer drink tea. They all tilted their heads and looked out to watch the fun...
On the second floor, facing the single room of the guild hall, a middle-aged white fat man stood by the window and looked for a long time before closing the window, turned around and sat back to the table, picked up the teacup, "Spray, drink one, and said to a man who is much younger and more handsome than him, "Hehe, the boss Chai you are looking for is really a big deal. Twenty tables of flowing abalone wing mats, I'm afraid of eating seven or eight hundred taels of silver this day."
The two are a pair of idle people, Shen Mo and Xu Wei.
"You don't understand this," Shen Mo shook his head and smiled, "This money should be paid out, which not only demonstrates strength, but also brings relationships closer, and raises your value. It's shocking to kill three birds with one stone. Why not do it?"
"Hehe, are you very proud?" Xu Wei looked at Shen Mo and said.
"Of course I'm proud." Shen Mo smiled for granted: "Who old man is unhappy when his students have achieved good grades?"
"I didn't mean that Xu Wei shook his head and smiled. Then he looked at Shen Mo's ever-soft gentle face and said, "I feel that your realm has improved again."
"How do you say it?" Shen Mo asked with a sip of tea.
"In the past, although you are quite powerful, you are never vague when you get angry, but you have to go through a lot of trouble every time, killing one thousand enemies and losing 800 yourself." Xu Wei smiled and said, "It's so tiring for you."
Shen Mo touched his chin and smiled awkwardly: "Is this praising me or harming me?"
"Of course I'm praising you," Xu Wei raised his thumbs up and said, "Your level has improved too quickly. Now he is killing people silently. He has made so many people die, but none of them think it was you." He said, "It seems that I have to learn "I'm good at learning" too!"
"You know too much," Shen Mo smiled faintly: Be careful that I will silence you."
"I'm so scared," Xu Wei panted and said, "But you are so cruel. Many of the candidates who used joint words are good at their own level. Now, you can "knock the mountain and shake the tiger" and Sister Yuan knocked them down all of them." He said, shaking his head and said, "It's a pity, it's really a stone to hit his own feet."
"You can't say that," Shen Mo shook his head and said, "Although they failed for a while, in the long run, there are great benefits." He paused and sighed, "If you want others to do nothing unless you do it, let alone the fall of the Yan Party is not far from the fall of the stern party. If they succeeded this time, they would only be some small officials of the sixth and seventh ranks. How could they have finished their eggs in their entirety? What's even more terrible is that today's joint words will be dug out. If anyone has used those nine words, not only will the career of the officialdom be destroyed, but the dignity of living will be gone." He said, and then he picked up the teapot and slowly poured bright yellow tea into the cup, saying, "Although I, Shen Mo, do not mercilessly, will not attack those scholars who are not very wrong.
"Then why are you treating Zhijian?" After Xu Wei said that, he broke his promise and quickly laughed: "I didn't say anything, but I'm actually quite relieved. Seeing him looking at his appearance to everyone Su, I wish I could beat him."
"You mean, I asked someone to design the nine words to Su Zhijian?" There was no slight confusion on the silent face, and he said slowly: "Yes, I don't want his brother to go further." As he said that, he picked up the teacup and blew gently: "As long as I'm in one day, he will never think about it.
"Forget it if you punish me a little bit." In contrast to Chen Si, Xu Wei was a harsh guy who was so kind and soft-hearted, and even helped Su Zhijian speak: "He is Su's younger brother after all. If you don't look at monks and Buddha's faces, don't do it too well. Don't forget how much Su Yun paid? You beat him to death. You denied everyone's efforts." As he said that, he abandoned his weight and said: "It's better to win the next time."
"This. I can't listen to you." Chen Si shook his head and said, "You should know that with Su Zhijian's level, he could not pass the imperial examination in Jiangnan at all. It was because I helped him get to Shaanxi and gained the opportunity to be an imperial examination." He said, looking at Xu Wei and said in a deep voice: "In my original idea, he was successful enough to be a judicial officer, and it was not in vain that Su Xue's efforts would be made. No matter how high it was, it would be too much."
"Then you shouldn't stop him?" Xu Wei said: "At most, don't care about him and let him take the exam with his ability. Whether he or she won the exam or not is his life."
After hearing this, he was silent for a moment and said softly: "I don't believe in his character. Of course, this is not the main reason. The main reason is that I don't want to cause trouble for myself." He said in a low voice: "The matter of letting him settle in Shaanxi is legal in the order of justice but in the sense of reason, it is not hard to step down if public opinion is not cut off... it is difficult to step down."
Economically developed areas are often rich in humanities and there are many scholars. For example, students who failed the Xijiang Provincial Examination, may be able to go to high school in Yunnan, Guizhou, Shaanxi. These places have poor conditions, with fewer Han people, and there are much fewer scholars than coastal areas. Excellent talents cannot be compared with coastal areas. However, in order to unite and stabilize, the imperial examination, a magical tool to alleviate contradictions, can play the greatest role, the imperial court specially took care of backward areas and gave these provinces a stable quota. Although the number is less than that of the outstanding areas, it can greatly increase the proportion with scholars, especially outstanding scholars.
Therefore, the court stipulated that you must return to your hometown for the exam. That is to say, you must be a local. However, if you did not bring a relocation household registration in the Ming Dynasty, you can only take the exam wherever your ancestors were.
But Su Zhijian didn't call this at that time, obviously he couldn't take the exam in Jiangnan. Because the people in his hometown knew the truth, his sister would inevitably be exposed. Then, it would be a waste of money.
At that time, the boy was depressed. Su Xue was afraid that he would fall completely and asked for silence with shamelessness. No matter how capable he is, he would not dare to change his household registration directly. He would be impatient to live.
But he still made the matter done because through inquiry, he learned that in addition to his hometown, he also had a family.
The so-called Rongji means military. In addition to the one who had to inherit his father's business, the rest of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty could also study and take the exam, and they could also take the exam at the location of the garrison and enjoy the same treatment as the hometown. At this time, the imperial court was naturally welcomed by the whole country in order to facilitate soldiers to guard the border, benefit the country, and also benefit the local government.
But like any system, it will last forever. It will be passed down from generation to generation, and it will cause a lot of problems. For example, the Su family, whose ancestors were ordered to leave Suzhou and guard the border Shaanxi. Later, they went to Su Xue's grandfather's generation, and Xuan studied hard and successfully took the exam to receive the Dewei Rong family. The family moved back to Jiangnan. While settling in their hometown, they also secretly retained their own poisonous books in case of failure. Therefore, their family has both a hometown and a successful family. This was not created by Grandpa Su Xue. In fact, many families with similar situations will do this for the sake of their descendants.
But this is a real family member of the garrison. But it’s unfair that your family has moved back? You are not living here and growing up here. How can you be considered a Rongji? How can they allow an irrelevant outsider to squeeze out their own quota?
Of course, if the descendants take the exam, their parents are still on the stage and can greet Wei Xue’s supervisors. Naturally, everything goes well and everything will come true. But like the Su family, the relationship between the Su family decades ago has long been gone, and the tea is cool. How could Wei Xue be willing to offend a local student for an outsider?
Therefore, although the Su family had a clan, without the help of silentness, the local Wei School would definitely not accept it. Just like if you don’t enter the county school and the official school cannot take the provincial examination, it would be impossible if you don’t enter the Wei School. In the same year when you were silent, you were in Shaanxi as an inspector, so this matter would not be difficult for him. So Su Xue’s younger brother changed his name to Zhijian and became a member of the Suide Wei School.
As I said, although this matter is not illegal at all, in the Ming Dynasty, emotions are always greater than laws. If the scholars of Suidewei are envious, jealous and hated, and they rise up and attack them, it will be really yellow mud that falls into the crotch. It is either shit or shit.
So from the beginning, I planned to let Su Zhijian participate in the big competition as a juren, and then stay away from Shaanxi to become a small official, and live a comfortable life. Su Xue was humiliated, but it only gave him an excuse to humiliate Su Zhijian.
"Do you really care about Su Xue's feelings?" Xu Wei said unwillingly.
"No one's feelings are not as important as my safety." Silent smiled and said, "I still have a lot of things I haven't done, and there are three more. My baby son has not been raised to be a human being. I cannot let any dangers be ignored.
Xu Wei said a little frustrated: "Then you should also destroy Xu Shixing. Isn't he sorry for you?"
"He was different. He shook his head slowly and said, "Whether true or false, he would call me a teacher. It is also necessary for the teacher to take some risks for his children. He said, "I don't like Mr. Xu's style of shrinking his head, so I can't learn from him.
“A typical double-faced prayer
"Xu Wei curled his lips and said, "If you like, you will protect the person you like. If you like, you will not even give him any chance.
"Haha, you saw through it and smiled silently; "Although I admire Xu Shixing, I did not protect you like you said. I have also tested him and punished him. What else do you want?"
Chen Si didn't have such a strong sense of family, but when he heard that Xu Shixing went to hug Tang Song's thighs, he was still a little angry. ***, if you don't hug my big hair legs, you will hug the little thin legs, what are you going to do? However, out of your understanding of Xu Shixing's usual character, Chen Si was willing to believe that he was just bent by a heavy burden, so he was cowardly and chose to entrust the stern members with the strict party members, and finally decided to forgive him this time.
In fact, he didn't realize that it was his own human touch that dominated the decision. He could not forget Xu Shixing's appearance of kneeling in front of his door and crying and expressing his feelings. He could not forget that during the holidays, Xu Shixing would use that exquisite bamboo basket to put all kinds of fruits he planted in his own hands to send them to his home to express his feelings.
Although there were not many of the past, it existed in the silent memory, which made him unable to make him feel ruthless at the critical moment. He originally planned to let Xu Shixing fail in this subject and reflect on himself, but he was worried that he would go to a dead end, so he finally put the basket on limestone, saying that it was his own fortune. But such an obvious hint, what is the difference between Xu Shixing and Mingshuo?
However, Chen Si was not so relaxed and let him go. If he had been so relaxed, he would have encountered thicker legs in the future. He would have thrown me aside? So when Wang Xijue and Xu Shixing visited, he enthusiastically invited the two to move to his house.
Xu Shi was worried about walking, would that make Tang Song unhappy? But the teacher was so kind that he couldn't refuse. Besides, he passed the exam, so he didn't use that word and didn't care about Tang Song anymore. Unexpectedly, the guy got angry and exposed his actions in public, which made him lose face and almost couldn't pass it.
Xu Shixing would not have thought that he was actually plotted by his respected teacher. If he continued to perform normally, Xu Shixing and Tang Song would be perfunctory for a few more days. Once the test result came out, Tang Song failed. If he was among the top, Tang Song would probably choose to curry favor with him silently because of his sudden highs, at least he would never make his ugly appearance in public.
But now Shen Mo invited him enthusiastically, and Xu Shixing had to move out in advance, but he immediately got into trouble with Tang Song. At that time, Tang Song didn't think he would have done worse than Xu Shixing's exam, so he had no scruples on the spot and threw a pot of dirty water into his life. Xu Shixing was indeed hit. Amid the ridicule of everyone, he stayed in the house all day and lost the courage to go out.
At this time, Chen Si came forward and took the responsibility on himself, saying that Xu Shixing was following his orders. "Although he had no worries about debts, no bites of lice, and no fear of offending many strict party members. But it was not to completely cleanse Xu Shixing, Chen Si would no longer be involved in this matter.
There are obviously many benefits to silent doing this. First, Xu Shixing completely broke up with Tang Song and would no longer turn to the Yan Party anymore. No, it should be said that he would no longer be implicated by the Yan Party anymore. Secondly, after this torture of life worse than death, Xu Shixing would not act in the future. Third, silent also gained the gratitude of Xu Shixing's thoughts of the five senses. Since then, there has been a good student who has been bent on him.
It's worth it.
However, he was asked by Xu Wei's next words: "If you didn't remind him, would Xu Shixing give up on this cheating? Seeing that he was silent, Xu Wei further said: "He turned back after all, under your hint. Don't you realize that this kind of remorse lacks persuasion? How do you conclude that he has really changed and will not be like this in the future?"
He asked about the silence, and he couldn't say it, so he had to laugh and said, "Ma Zi once said, "God will forgive young people for making mistakes." Don't keep holding on to that little thing and say in a deep voice, "There are still long, and there is still time to test him again. If you dare to fight against each other, you will never forgive me."
"Just be sure, I just said that.
"Xu Wei smiled and said, "By the way, you are a Ma Zi, who is the wise man who is the Ma Zi all day long? He doesn't know how to be rough when he listens to his words.
"This is silent and said with a strange look: "It's Xizhe.
"The philosopher from the Western Regions?" Xu Wei asked.
"I have to go west and say silent.
"Persia, big food?"
"I have to go west and remain silent and keep silent, and said leisurely: "In the extreme west, a brilliant civilization was born. Socrates, Palatu, Arius and other sages are no worse than Confucius, Mencius, Laozi, Zhuang, Mo, Han and Xun in China.
"Then what works do Su Zi, Paizi and Yazi have? Xu Wei's enthusiasm has increased. He was bored and could only read books, but the more knowledgeable he was, the more he felt that Chinese literati were bound by Confucius and Mencius's crazy promotion. There were few things that made him feel that he had been energetic. He had long wanted to see books written without being restricted by Confucius and Mencius.
"I'm just hearing about it." I remembered something silently and said, "There are also a few Western missionaries who come to Beijing with my family. I will ask you if they bring those books."
"The missionary? Xu Wei said strangely.
"The foreign monk scratched his head silently and said, "But they believe in God, not Tathagata
"Is it the God Ma Zi said who will forgive young people?" Xu Wei said: "That's quite kind
"It was him who smiled silently: "All the red-haired ghosts believe in that thing
"That's over. Xu Wei curled his lips and said, "So many red-haired devils are fighting pirates. I think their God is just a big bad wolf in sheep's clothing."
Chapter completed!